NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices
As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…
Category: Architecture
Introducing NetWorker 8
Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…
The one core problem with deduplication
[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…
Healthy paranoia
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
The problem with VADP
Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…
ILP policies vs Backup Policies
This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…
Counting the numbers
How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…
Rage against the ravine
What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…
Stop
The last 6 weeks my life has seemingly constantly been about interruptions. The house we’re renting has just been sold,…
10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes
When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…